I’ve been a fan of Catherine McCarthy’s work for a few years now, but this was a high for me.
The voice of the main character seems almost instantly familiar. The mystery elements which unfold as you learn more about the strange goings on at the church, andthe waythe ending of the story is crafted are masterful.
Cults, cosmic horror, a fascinating artist protagonist with an intriguing back story. The prose in itself is just sumptuous, written in stunning detail and yet never relenting in terms of pace. I loved every page of this book.
When Robin Griffiths embarks upon the restoration of a stained-glass window in a thirteenth-century church, little does she comprehend the stakes involved. The more slivers of glass she pieces together, the more she realizes things are not what they appear to be in the seemingly cozy hamlet of Bilbury. Piece by piece, sliver by sliver, the window is revealed in all its glory. But will she survive with her sanity intact, or will reawakening the image in the window prove to be her undoing?
Ross Jeffery is an author who is garnering quite a name for himself in the sub-genre of grief horror.
After the heartrending The Devil’s Pocketbook, I wondered if he would be able to go one better in this new release. After reading, it’s easy to say he has.
The protagonist, Henry, and his friend—who he in fact got to know in their grief counselling group—are mourning different losses, using at times difficult, nihilistic humour to get themselves through one more day at a time. When a new member arrives offering a way for Henry to find out if his missing daughter is really dead, things go into a tailspin which doesn’t let up until the absolutely shocking end.
By turns horrific, hilarious, and deeply affecting, this was a fantastic read.
From Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Ross Jeffery, comes a new horror novel focused on a father's journey to find his missing daughter.
Henry's daughter was fourteen when she went missing and he's been burying pieces of her ever since. Each totem Henry places in the ground is a memento mori of his daughter's life that he's desperate to forget. Surviving with the guilt of his possible role in her disappearance, and more than likely her death, Henry is unable to move forward.
All is not lost though, when a stranger appears at Henry's grief counselling group with a dark and…
This book opens with a vampiric central character, whose confident, playful dialogue immediately draws you in.
After a nail-biting first scene, I buckled up for a vampire thrill ride of violence and bloodshed, but what I got was something that goes as much for the heartstrings as it does for the carotid artery. It maintains the excellently written dialogue and tight, expertly paced action, but it also gets down to the level of the vamps in the story: their philosophies, what it means to live forever, cursed as they are.
Superbly written, and a wonderfully crafted tale that offers so much more than I imagined going in.
Our Own Unique Affliction is the story of Alice Ann, a dejected immortal who longs for her life in the sun. Navigating guilt, loss, family, meaning, murder, and all that comes with the curse of living forever. An existential bleak, quiet until it's not, hallucination on duality, rife with fangs, empathy, blood, and grief.
"Unexpected and grim, Scott J. Moses' Our Own Unique Affliction is the most inventive and bombastically gruesome vampire story I've read since The Light at the End by John Skipp and Craig Spector. An exquisitely written meditation on grief, family, and trauma told with such empathy…
Decades after his grandfather was buried alive in a Californian gold mine, Dr. Nick Jones teams up with an adventure travel influencer to venture underground and film a documentary, telling the story of what really happened.
What should be a dream come true soon becomes a nightmare as someone or something stirs…below.
